Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era

Edited by Noah Isenberg

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Paper, 376 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13055-4
$27.50 / £19.00

January, 2009
Cloth, 376 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13054-7
$89.50 / £62.00

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Suggestion, by Hypnosis

Stefan Andriopoulos

2. Of Monsters and Magicians: Paul Wegener’s The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920)

Noah Isenberg

3. Movies, by Money

Christian Rogowski

4. No End to Nosferatu (1922)

Thomas Elsaesser

5. Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse, by the Gambler (1922): Grand Enunciator of the Weimar Era

Tom Gunning

6. Who Gets the Last Laugh? Old Age and Generational Change in F. W. Murnau’s The Last Laugh (1924)

Sabine Hake

7. Inflation and Devaluation: Gender, by Space

Sara F. Hall

8. Tradition as Intellectual Montage: F. W. Murnau’s Faust (1926)

Matt Erlin

9. Metropolis (1927): City, by Cinema

Anton Kaes

10. Berlin, by Symphony of a Great City (1927): City

Nora M. Alter

11. Surface Sheen and Charged Bodies: Louise Brooks as Lulu in Pandora’s Box (1929)

Margaret McCarthy

12. The Bearable Lightness of Being: People on Sunday (1930)

Lutz Koepnick

13. National Cinemas / International Film Culture: The Blue Angel (1930) in Multiple Language Versions

Patrice Petro

14. Coming Out of the Uniform: Political and Sexual Emancipation in Leontine Sagan’s Mädchen in Uniform (1931)

Richard W. McCormick

15. Fritz Lang’s M (1931): An Open Case

Todd Herzog

16. Whose Revolution? The Subject of Kuhle Wampe (1932)

Marc Silberman

Filmography

Contributors

Index

Related Subjects

• Film

Series

• Film and Culture Series

About the Author

Noah Isenberg is associate professor of University Humanities at Eugene Lang College-The New School, where he teaches literature, film, and intellectual history. He is the author, most recently, of Detour (British Film Institute, 2008).

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